Giuliani calls for Obama to resign for 'incompetence' over Benghazi consulate attack and the economy

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has blasted President Obama for ‘incompetence’ over the attack on the U.S consulate in Benghazi.

Speaking in Ohio at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Giuliani said Obama should resign over his handling of the economy.

Giuliani told a 30,000-strong crowd at The Square at Union Centre, West Chester, that the Obama administration should be ‘ashamed of themselves’ for claiming that the latest job figures were a positive sign.

Rudy Giuliani addressed a 30,000-strong crowd in Ohio yesterday to urge them to vote for Republican candidate Mitt Romney in Tuesday's election

The figures, announced on Friday, showed that the unemployment rate had increased by a point to 7.9 per cent during October.

In an impassioned speech, Giuliani referred to a 2009 interview in which Obama vowed to turn the economy around in three years, otherwise he would be a ‘one-term proposition’.

He said: ‘He should resign. He told us he would resign if he did this poorly.

‘He lied. He has been a disaster. The worst president for our economy in our lifetime.

'He doesn't want a second term. He wants a second chance, because he screwed it up the first time.’

The majority of polls show President Obama holds a narrow lead in Ohio, a vital swing state, and across the nation.

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But the margins in seven key swing states - including Obama’s lead in Ohio, and Romney’s leads in Florida and Virginia - are less than three per cent, or within the polls’ margins of error.

Guiliani, who failed to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, also slammed Democrats for making Romney's business experience with private equity firm Bain Capital a target on the campaign trail.

He said: ‘They tried to humiliate him
because of that. You know something, if Governor Romney can have the
success for America that he had for Bain Capital, thank God! Our people
would be working again.'

The
biggest applause during Giuliani's speech came when he argued that the
attack on the Benghazi consulate would not have happened if Senator John
McCain had won the 2008 election.

President Barack Obama was also on the campaign trial in Ohio yesterday, high-fiving a young girl as he met supporters at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Hilliard

He said: ‘They tried to humiliate him because of that. You know something, if Governor Romney can have the success for America that he had for Bain Capital, thank God! Our people would be working again.'

The biggest applause during Giuliani's speech came when he argued that the attack on the Benghazi consulate would not have happened if Senator John McCain had won the 2008 election.

The attack, which killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, took place on September 11 this year.

He said: ‘You know that what happened in Libya is the result, at least, of incompetence.

‘Maybe if we had a president who was paying attention, we wouldn't be going through all this investigation of what's being covered up about Libya.'

Giuliani claimed the attack on the U.S consulate in Benghazi on September 11 this year would not have happened if Senator John McCain had beaten Obama to the White House in 2008

Giuliani ended with a plea to the Ohio audience to vote for Romney on Tuesday.

He said: ‘You know what stands in his way? You know what's going to stop him? Ohio! You're going to do it.'

Guiliani spoke at the rally along side 2008 presidential nominee Senator
John McCain, Ohio Governor John Kasich, Ohio Senator Rob Portman and
Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Prior to the speakers, thousands of Romney
supporters jammed the area around the stage, chanting ‘four more days’
in reference to the time remaining on this presidential term for Obama.